Muslim/Islam

Perhaps half, or maybe 2/3 of the 65 or so participants were Muslim.

The disconnect between faith and culture is a problem everywhere - accepting the effort it takes to make faith an integral part of your life is challenging with all the secular distractions, so faith starts to become a cultural identification rather than a spiritual one. And - then the challenge comes in with the Salafi school, or in the Christian realm the religious right. Too often, the zealots have done nothing but read the bible (or the Quran) - and it becomes hard for those of us who would be more thoughtful about it to respond because we have lost (or never had) the tools for that kind of rigorous discussion of faith.